I think you’re probably right. Microsoft seems less invested in winning an operating system battle at this point. They’re positioning services and abstractions that care less about the end device’s operating system, more so that they’re at least on that device.

I wouldn’t be surprised we see Microsoft “embrace” Proton and Wine in the next 5 to 10 years as it’s far easier to let “the community” predominantly handle supporting legacy Windows versions that have to handle it themselves.

They can’t suddenly lose that entire OS revenue machine however and would need to transition. But I doubt that Redmond are naive to the disruption Wine and Proton are having and how technical users are starting to jump ship.

Their cola is awesome! Vastly superior to Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

I thought the drivers were already merged into the kernel as hid-sony or hid-playstation?

Have you tried removing ds4drv and just trying to connect the pad via USB? If that works, you can try pairing via Bluetooth.

It could be your Mint kernel is old and doesn’t have the drivers. I’m on Arch so I’ve had no issues and the pads just work and Steam handles them with no issues.

He’s crazy good at assimilating accents so a lot of people don’t realise. Here’s his real accent (apologies for the YouTube link).

Christian Bale is English. His accent in Reign of Fire is not far off his normal accent.

I’d say treaties are indeed a technology; they’re frameworks / systems that arose around the time commerce was invented. Since technology is purely the application of knowledge to achieve goals, while they may be somewhat intangible, so is software which I think most would agree is technology.

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https://podbay.fm/p/the-climate-deniers-playbook/e/1727859600

Yup, self hosted although on a cloud platform so I can collaborate.

Bottles/Wine is a good thing to check. I couldn’t see Figma Desktop in WineHQ’s AppDB so compatibility isn’t known and I’ve long since moved to Penpot.

Alternatively you could just run it in a VM with GPU passthrough.

Otherwise, Figma Web could be an alternative although I don’t think Web does everything Desktop can do.

Dubloonies!

For those of us who played Doom multiplayer over a network back in the 90s (the OG “Deathmatch”), you were very familiar with Doomguy(s):

Not to mention the iconic box art:

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Shenmue was insanely cool when it came out in 1999. To consider Ocarina of Time came out the year before, open world games were a brand new thing. Shenmue paired that with an epic action life-sim. It was just so unexpected; so many minigame-like mechanics for doing things around the world. It was incredibly immersive and ahead of its time.

I don’t think it has as big an impact on players as it had on developers.

The Yakuza series sticks out as greatly inspired by Shenmue / spiritual successor, as with Persona series. Also games like Lake, Fahrenheit / The Indigo Prophecy, GTA/RedDead, FFVII Remake, all owe a little to Shenmue.